10.24843 Lexical Time Words in Balinese and Japanese Language: A Typological Approach

Ketut Widya Purnawati (Udayana University)
Ketut Artawa (Udayana University)
Made Sri Satyawati (Udayana University)
Asako Shiohara (Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)

E-Journal of Linguistics
Vol 12 No 2 (2018): eJL-July

This research is a study of intralingual typology in the form of a contrastive study of temporal lexicon in Balinese and Japanese language. The main theory used in this study was the theory of canonical time periods proposed by Haspelmath (1997) and the classification of lexical time words proposed by Dixon (2010). The result of data analysis showed that both Balinese and Japanese have a rich variation in lexical items. Japanese is rich in vocabulary relating to qualitative time periods, especially the vocabulary that related to the seasons and day parts. Balinese is rich in vocabulary related to the name of calendar unit because Balinese uses not only the Christian year as the Japanese people, but also uses the Saka year which has a complex system and procedure for calculating the time